ESC Richard von Weizsaecker Lecture States of Emergency: What we can learn Today from German Interwar History Martin H. Geyer is the Richard von Weizsäcker Visiting Fellow at the European Studies... Read more

Citizens of Nowhere, unite? Europe might seem like a continent pulling itself apart: ten years of economic and political crisis have pitted North versus South, East versus West, citizens versus... Read more

image: google images ***EVENT NOW SOLD OUT*** *** PLEASE NOTE THAT THE VENUE FOR THIS EVENT HAS NOW CHANGED from the ESC, 70 Woodstock Road, Oxford, TO: THE NISSAN LECTURE THEATRE, ST ANTONY'S... Read more

The Agora Europe Series: Brexit and Populism Conceived in this moment of appalling political instability, Agora Europe creates opportunities for a public debate on how to reorganize the European... Read more

Photo credit: Susan Taylor Projections Onto the Past: Remembering Democratisation in Spain and Portugal. The almost simultaneous demise of the Estado Novo in Portugal (1933–1974) and the Francoist... Read more

Democrats, Authoritarians and the Bologna Process. The Bologna Process, initiated in 1999, now includes all 48 member countries of the Council of Europe. In 2010, it was renamed ‘the European Higher... Read more

Explaining the rise of the far right in Europe: Economic Insecurity, Cultural backlash and the role of social policies. Far right parties are on the rise across Europe. Their shared populist rhetoric... Read more